6th Otto Schott Research Award

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Conradt, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Conradt

He conceived a highly versatile approach to thermodynamic modelling of oxide melts and glasses based on constitutional relations of equilibrium phases and achieved pioneering results of this approach in evaluating physical and chemical properties, particularly chemical resistance of technical multi-component glasses.

Dr. Boris A. Shakhmatkin (+), Institute of Silicate Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Natalia M. Vedishcheva, Institute of Silicate Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The team developed a rigorous thermodynamic model of oxide melts and glasses based on compound equilibria and obtained impressive results by applying this model to the evaluation of physical properties of two-component glass forming systems.